"By far the most significant learning experience in adulthood involves critical self-reflection - reassessing the way we have posed problems and reassessing our own orientation to perceiving, knowing, believing, feeling and acting."

You need to have absolute clarity over 3 fundamental facts:
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<li>Your goals (the destination)</li>
<li>Your current situation (your coordinates)</li>
<li>The path that connects both of them (the route).</li>
</ul>
A very simple, but crucial principle: if you don’t know where you are, you can never reach the place where you want to be.

3 areas of life to clarify

Ikigai (usually translated as 'life’s purpose') is a Japanese concept that provides a visual framework to reach clarity and identify long-term goals. 
It encompasses 4 dimensions of life: what you love, what you are good at, what you can be paid for and what the world needs.

The Ikigai diagram

Useful for identifying the most optimal ways to spend your time.
The pie chart represents the total amount of time available within a chosen period of time. The time is limited and because it reinforces the idea of scarcity, you are forced to prioritize.

The Piechart of Time

Making an alternative choice is hard because we are neurologically wired to favor the default solution, even if it brings suboptimal results. 
As the complexity of a decision increases, so does our tendency to stick with the answer we know.

The world of the status quo bias

It's a visual tool for time management and evaluating tasks, to decide whether they should be carried out, delegated or dropped. 
It divides tasks into 4 quadrants: Urgent and important, Not urgent and important, Urgent and not important, Not urgent and not important.

The Time Management Matrix

Overcome inertia and move ahead on your goals with these proven tools for visual thinking "By far the most significant learning experience in adulthood involves critical self-reflection - reassessing the way we have posed problems and reassessing our own orientation to perceiving, knowing, believing, feeling and acting."

The world of the status quo bias

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Status quo bias

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